Edward Haughey, Baron Ballyedmond

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Edward Enda Haughey,[1] Baron Ballyedmond, OBE[2] (born 5 January 1944) is an entrepreneur[3][4][5] and politician.[6] With an estimated personal wealth of £500m, he is the richest person in Northern Ireland,[7] 9th richest in Ireland 250 member list and is joint 132nd richest person in the United Kingdom.[8]

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[edit] Biography

Edward Haughey[9] was born in Kilcurry, north of Dundalk, County Louth, Ireland in 1944 and educated by the Christian Brothers in Dundalk.[10][11][12] He married Mary Gordon Young in 1972, by whom he had two sons and a daughter.

Haughey emigrated to the United States for four years in the 1960s, but returned home and founded a veterinary pharmaceutical manufacturing business in 1968. He has been Chairman of Newry-based Norbrook Laboratories and Norbrook Holdings since 1980. Norbrook employs 1,300 people worldwide, 1,000 of them in Northern Ireland. He also started an air travel business, principally Haughey Air, which owned a helicopter charter company and the 150-year lease of Carlisle Airport, acquired in 2000. Carlisle Airport made a loss three years running and was sold to WA Developments, the owner of the Eddie Stobart company of hauliers, in May 2006.

He owns Ballyedmond Castle in Rostrevor, Corby Castle in Cumbria, and No. 9, Belgrave Square, London (a 6-storey townhouse purchased in 2006 for about £12m, restored during the following three years).[13]

On 1 July 2008 Haughey was made an Honorary Doctor of Science (DSc) by the University of Ulster recognition of his contribution to the development of the international pharmaceutical industry. Tax deductible donations have been made by Norbrook to the UU.[14]

Haughey is the branch president of the National Malaya and Borneo veterans association.[15] [4]

[edit] Politics

Haughey was nominated to the Seanad ("Seanad Éireann" or Irish senate) by the then Taoiseach, Albert Reynolds, in 1994, and nominated again by Bertie Ahern in 1997. He has been a member of the Forum for Peace and Reconciliation and the British-Irish Inter-Parliamentary Body since 1997. In 2004, Haughey was made a life peer as Baron Ballyedmond of Mourne in the County of Down and sat in the British House of Lords on behalf of the Ulster Unionist Party, before switching to the Conservative Party.[16]

Haughey has served as an Honorary Consul to the Republic of Chile[5].

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[edit] References

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  2. ^ "Lord Ballyedmond". TheyWorkForYou. http://www.theyworkforyou.com/peer/lord_ballyedmond. Retrieved 18 October 2011. 
  3. ^ By Business and Finance Business & Finance+ Add Contact (21 February 2011). "Awards 2009 | Flickr – Photo Sharing!". Flickr. http://www.flickr.com/photos/40047336@N06/4655796169/. Retrieved 18 October 2011. 
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  6. ^ "Skills Development essential for economic success – Ruane | Sinn Féin". Sinnfein.ie. 8 November 2007. http://www.sinnfein.ie/contents/10575. Retrieved 18 October 2011. 
  7. ^ "Irish Left Review · Poverty and Class in Northern Ireland". Webcache.googleusercontent.com. http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:ZeA9mGinewEJ:www.irishleftreview.org/2009/10/14/poverty-class-northern-ireland/+http://www.irishleftreview.org/2009/10/14/poverty-class-northern-ireland/&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk&source=www.google.co.uk. Retrieved 18 October 2011. 
  8. ^ "News & Star | News | Lord Ballyedmond sees fortune grow by £60 million in year". Newsandstar.co.uk. 26 April 2010. http://www.newsandstar.co.uk/news/lord-ballyedmond-sees-fortune-grow-by-60-million-in-year-1.700201?referrerPath=home. Retrieved 18 October 2011. 
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  10. ^ Northern Ireland Peers[dead link]
  11. ^ Distinguished Fellowship Award 2004 – Edward Haughey[dead link]
  12. ^ "Edward Haughey: ZoomInfo Business People Information". Zoominfo.com. http://www.zoominfo.com/people/Haughey_Edward_77687663.aspx. Retrieved 18 October 2011. 
  13. ^ Post (14 October 2010). "The Sunday Times, 7 March 2010, "They’ve really gone to town" by Karen Robinson". Property.timesonline.co.uk. http://property.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/property/interiors/article7051762.ece?token=null&offset=0&page=1. Retrieved 18 October 2011. 
  14. ^ University Honour for Lord Ballyesmond University of Ulster News Release – 1 July 2008
  15. ^ The National Malaya & Borneo Veterans Association (23 October 2010). "Presentation Ceremony at Ballyedmond Castle – October 23, 2010". Nmbva-ulster.co.uk. http://www.nmbva-ulster.co.uk/ballyedmund-castle-pjm. Retrieved 18 October 2011. 
  16. ^ Another Lords Defection « ConservativesNI.com[dead link]

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